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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1912
Page
7
Cartoonist Bud Fisher teases upcoming premiums and the next Sunday want ads in a partial, clipped notice. Limited readable text mentions Great Britain rights and a promotional tie, hinting at distribution and licensing details.
Classified ad fragment lists employment for 15 salesmen to travel dry goods trade for a Chicago New York publisher, offering expenses and commissions. Includes contact Empire Art Co Chicago and J. M. Meyers Co New York. Also notes lost ring and rental notices with addresses.
All orders for advertising require cash. Rates: one cent per word per insertion. Minimum 15 cents. Want ads up to three lines run three times for 26 5 cents. Monthly contracts 50 cents per line per month. Death and funeral notices and bank and lodge notices five cents per line per insertion. Two or more consecutive insertions three cents per line per insertion.
Classified snapshot shows McKinstry listing boarding house with eight rooms and full occupancy, plus lots for sale on Twenty-first street in a central location. Also ad for first class furniture bargains and farm property services, with miscellaneous items including chickens and rental notices.
A bay mare with saddle is found and can be claimed by the owner who provides a description and pays keep and advertising costs. Contact C. 8. Payne at 6998 or pay 800 for recovery. Apply at the leader office by 18.
An early camera design doubles as a projector and uses glass plates instead of film. Built for amateurs, it stores glass plates in a magazine with 162 exposures per plate, enabling safe home picture taking and projection as described in the October Popular Mechanics.
New York financial and metals market news shows close figures for Amalgamated Copper and American Sugar with mixed results across major stocks. Denver cattle and hog markets report strong cattle prices and solid hog volumes amid steady sheep values, with calves reaching high levels and hens noted.
A partial transcript shows a tense exchange with the speaker expressing despair and a sympathetic comment from a vislter figure. The fragment references a Norman W and Mack's National Monthly in a distressed tone.
In South Omaha native cattle and western and Texas steers sold across a broad range with calves and bulls also traded. Hog receipts total 2,900 with prices easing slightly. sheep at 25,000 head showed steady demand with yearlings, wethers, ewes, and lambs priced widely. A fragment from St Louis notes wool markets steady with western and territory wools priced around 20 to 24 cents per pound.
Chicago reports show wheat September at 2%4e, December 9 0%e. corn September 67 We, December 2e. oats September 12%e, December 24 32 Me Por. Lard September 10.95, Ribsa September 10.56%.
A humorous courtroom exchange features Judge Watter asking about a vegetarian restaurant. The waiter replies with a pun noting no rheumatism in the joint, highlighting comic wordplay in the dialogue.
An old farm scene recalls a son visiting his rheumatic father confined to his room. A fellow farmer arrives to cheer him, and the trio share a moment in the home as quiet events unfold, revealing small human kindness amid illness.
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